Sentence examples for though gently from inspiring English sources

On "Cheers, It's Christmas," that includes tweaking, though gently, the holiday expectations.

AGES 3-6 -- Though gently handled, Buddy's eviction from Santa land might be upsetting.

The ways the dancers rise and fall and enter and leave the stage are constantly though gently surprising.

They chopped onions, handed out humble (mince) pies, had their feet washed and were publicly (though gently) whipped.

Then, out of the dying cadence emerged Kurtág's Play With Infinity, at first ethereally high and weightless, then slowly moving down keyboard as though gently guided by gravity.

When I got caught shaving my legs in middle school or trying to straighten my hair with a dinky hair dryer or when I came home with drippy makeup after a sleepover, I was promptly -- though gently -- chastised and lectured.

In this case, though, he gently pushes his character onto – if not across — the line that divides farce from tragedy.

He dispenses with his trademark Bavarian-accented voiceover here, though his gently forthright questioning and nose for everyday surrealism prove remarkably effective.

Meanwhile, in the idyllic-seeming backwater, unaddressed and troubling issues of poverty and race emerge - though so gently as to be near invisible - especially when Ames's surrogate son, a traditional "bad lot", comes back to Gilead and circumstances invite comparison between 1950s social unacceptability and the abolitionist fervour of only a couple of generations ago.

Raeburn smiled gently, though he seemed unconvinced.

Gently, though, he clasped one hand around my wrist.